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Trump suddenly triggers the first African-American librarian in Congress

With apparently no warning, the first woman and the first African-American to be a librarian in the congress received an email from the Blank House Personnel Office by informing Carla Hayden that she had been dismissed. AP News reported That Hayden had recently been criticized by the Defense Group of the Conservatives American Accountability Foundation for “the promotion of children’s books with” radical “content and literary equipment written by Trump opponents”. The AAF went to X to celebrate the termination of the hours before the news was made public. Democratic leaders condemned this decision and congratulated the management of Hayden, with New Mexico senator Martin Heinrich, saying that Donald Trump “took his assault on American libraries at a new level”. It is exhausting to be horrified by taking good people who do a good job, and I cannot start imagining how much Hayden felt such an e-mail and disdainful ending his historic career at the Congress Library, “with immediate effect”.

About this romant “fyre fest of book festivals”

This quote is from the author Kait Disney-Legers, one of the participants in one million lives who went to Tiktok to unpack the event announced as a collection with “a sales room, panels, a content creation room, cosplay fandom meetings, a cosplay competition and a ball”. If you guessed from the object line that tea did not concern how great the event was, you guessed. Many authors who showed up reported little attendance, contradicting the participation rate that would have been promised to them. Attendance is of course important for the quality of any event, but especially for the authors who asked to sign tables in the hope of selling books. You really have to see the Tiktoks (many of which have become viral) to understand the morve described: the sad conference table, the mainly empty room, washing the gray of the company. The numerous conferences of legal marketing at which I attended during my previous career seem glamorous in comparison. Participants paid $ 50 at $ 250 per ticket, and author Perci Jay said that she had gone to the Texas Maryland to attend and planned many big life events around participation. Whoof. What a mess. You can Read it and find some of the videos to The cut.

Amazon’s shock with the day independent of the bookstore could be repeated

Vibrations without Cre Amazon response to Brew Brew When they were asked if they would avoid planning their week of sale in the big book around the day independent of the bookstore. This year, the second sale of Amazon annual books took place from April 23 to 28 and the independent day of the bookstore, which has not moved its calendar for 12 years, took place on April 26. This did not go unnoticed and while Amazon, when asked by various media that chose history, argued that overlap was again when it was intentional again, they did not propose an answer to retail to answer whether they did it again, even when they were explicit. Independent bookstores are a beloved institution and the optics are bad for Amazon, but I suppose that Amazon is counting on a lack of consciousness or perhaps even the apathy of its user base concerned with costs and convenience-if They made it possible to think about this when planning their books. Although the question of whether Amazon inadvertently helped the independent day of the bookstore, because these sales increased by 77% compared to the previous year, the director of communications of the American Booksellers Association did not. “Amazon does not help independent bookstores. Period,” said Ray T. Daniels.